Warnings: Swearing, mention of self-harm, injured!Sebastian
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters or the song.
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CHAPTER 3:
When they got to the park, Marcus and Nick hit the ground running. They were following the GPS on Marcus' phone. He had keyed in the co-ordinates of Sebastian's phone and they were hoping it was accurate.
They ran past the lake and along the stream before Marcus waded through it to the other side.
"He should be here somewhere. The trees might be obscuring the signal," Marcus called. "I'll go this way, you try that way."
Nick nodded before he headed downstream, calling out Sebastian's name as he wandered through the trees. He combed the area as well as he could but the shrubs and bushes were dense. He soon gave in, pulling out his phone and calling Sebastian's phone. Nick listened, turning slowly in a circle before he heard the faint sounds of the ringtone.
Slowly, Nick wandered through the trees, listening as the sound got louder before stopping. He felt panicked for a moment before glancing down at his phone and realising Sebastian had answered. He held the phone to his ear and kept walking in the direction he thought Sebastian was.
"Seb, you need to yell for me. We tracked your phone with the GPS chip thing in it. I'm in the forest with you but I can't see you. I need you to yell or sing or something."
"Nick…"
Nick stopped, panting heavily. "Yes, it's Nick. Please Seb, you need to sing for me. I have to find you."
The line was quiet for a moment before Nick heard him singing through the phone and on the air. He followed it…
Uptown girl
She's been living in her uptown world
I bet she's never had a backstreet guy
I bet her momma never told her why
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I'm gonna try for an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man
That's what I am
Nick fell to his knees beside Sebastian, pulling his fiancé into his lap and showering his face in kisses. He pulled back, looking over Sebastian. He was dirty and there were a few cuts in his wrist and a lump on his head that oozed blood but he seemed fine otherwise. Nick pushed Sebastian's hair out of his face, resting a hand on his cheek and stroking the skin with his thumb.
"Nick," Sebastian whispered. He took several deep breaths before carefully reaching towards him.
"It's alright, Seb. I'm here. Everything's going to be fine. I love you so much."
"Love you too," Sebastian murmured as his eyes drifted shut.
Nick looked around before he shouted over his shoulder to Marcus. "Marcus! I've found him!"
There was a great commotion as Marcus came bounding through the trees. He knelt down beside his son, taking Sebastian's hand and holding on tight.
"Oh Sebastian! Thank god you're alright!" He leaned down to hug him carefully. "Don't you ever fucking do that to me again!"
Marcus pulled back and took out his phone. "I'll call the police; they should be here by now."
Nick nodded before he looked back to Sebastian. "Can you tell me what happened? Why you texted me so early this morning?"
"Scared you might change your mind," Sebastian mumbled before managing a lopsided smile.
Nick laughed softly. "I would never change my mind, Sebastian. We're in this together. 'Til death do us part."
Sebastian smiled again before he started crying. Nick pulled him closer, rubbing his back and rocking him gently. They soon found themselves surrounded by police officers who helped Nick get Sebastian to his feet and led him from the forest. Nick laid Sebastian across the back seat of his father's car with Sebastian's head in his lap and Marcus drove them back to the house.
Inside, David Smythe was waiting with his medical bag.
"Where do you want him?" Marcus asked.
"We'll let him lie down, take him upstairs," David answered before jogging up the stairs ahead of Nick, Sebastian and Marcus. They got Sebastian into his room and onto his bed where David set about checking him over.
"Nasty bump to the head, quite a few scrapes and bruises – probably from being in the forest," David turned to Sebastian as he gently wiped warm soapy water over the cuts in his wrist. "Seb, when did you cut yourself? Can you remember?"
"Mmm, at Jesse's grave… Thought no one loved me…"
Nick was kneeling beside the bed and he kissed Sebastian's hand at that comment. "I still love you, Sebastian. We're gonna get you cleaned up and then we're gonna get married, okay?"
Sebastian smiled sleepily at Nick, squeezing his hand weakly.
"I want an ambulance on standby at the reception then," David said as he pulled out a bandage. "He should really be at the hospital with his head and level of dehydration."
"Thanks Uncle Dave," Sebastian murmured.
David cleaned the other scrapes across Sebastian's body and glued up the cut in his head before they helped Sebastian sit up.
"You need to keep drinking water, alright? That's the one proviso for me not sending you to the hospital instead," David said as he stood. "Other than that and the aches and pains, you should be alright."
"Okay, how much time do we have until we need to be at the church?" Marcus asked from where he'd been standing in the corner of the room.
"It's just on half past one," Jeff said as he came into the room. "Nick, we need to get down to the church. Your mom took your suit with her, remember?"
Nick nodded before he looked down at Sebastian, smiling before he kissed him softly. "I'll see you at the altar?"
"I'll be the one with the water bottle," Sebastian murmured.
Nick hated to leave Sebastian but he had no choice. The whole point of finding him was to go get married, after all.
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A/N: So Seb's alive and the wedding's going ahead and it's gonna be a short author's note coz I'm gonna see if I can write the whole fic before the sun comes up in 6 and a half hours :p Hope you're enjoying it! –Frankie xoxo
Song: Uptown Girl – Billy Joel (Warbler cover of course :p)